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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 8
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Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for sin—God promised to make a new covenant with Israel.
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Now</span> of the things which we have spoken <i>this is</i> the sum: We have such an <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG High Priests; TG Jesus Christ, Authority of.">high</a> priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
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A minister of the sanctuary, and of the <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 9: 24.">true</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 40: 2; Heb. 9: 11 (11-24).">tabernacle</a>, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore <i>it is</i> of necessity that this man have somewhat also to <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eph. 5: 2.">offer</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/4a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Heb. 8: 4 Therefore while he was on the earth, he offered for a sacrifice his own life for the sins of the people. Now every priest under the law, must needs offer gifts, or sacrifices, according to the law.">For</a> if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priests.">priests</a> that offer gifts according to the law:
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Who serve unto the example and <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation.">shadow</a> of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 35: 11.">tabernacle</a>: for, See, saith he, <i>that</i> thou make all things according to the <sup>c</sup><a href="heb/8/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Acts 7: 44.">pattern</a> shewed to thee in the mount.
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But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through; TG Jesus Christ, Authority of.">mediator</a> of a better <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/6b" mark="b" type="C" title="Heb. 7: 22; TG Covenants; TG Priesthood, Melchizedek.">covenant</a>, which was established upon better <sup>c</sup><a href="heb/8/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Promises.">promises</a>.
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For if that first <i>covenant</i> had been <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 7: 11 (11-16).">faultless</a>, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Judah</a>:
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Not according to the <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Law of Moses.">covenant</a> that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
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For this <i>is</i> the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Law of.">laws</a> into their <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mind.">mind</a>, and write them in their <sup>c</sup><a href="heb/8/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 33; 2 Cor. 3: 3.">hearts</a>: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
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And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
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For I will be merciful to their <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 14.">unrighteousness</a>, and their sins and their iniquities will I <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness.">remember</a> no more.
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In that he saith, A <sup>a</sup><a href="heb/8/13a" mark="a" type="C" title="Heb. 9: 15; 3 Ne. 12: 47 (46-47); 3 Ne. 15: 3 (2-10); Ether 13: 9; TG New and Everlasting Covenant.">new</a> <i>covenant,</i> he hath made the first old.  Now that which decayeth and waxeth <sup>b</sup><a href="heb/8/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Cor. 5: 17.">old</a> <i>is</i> ready to <sup>c</sup><a href="heb/8/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="3 Ne. 12: 46 (19, 46).">vanish</a> away.
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